Published debate record
6 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 74.8/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.
Jordan Peterson vs Matt Dillahunty: The Greatest God Debate In History · 2023
Peterson defended religious experience, narrative, and ultimate value as meaning-bearing realities; Dillahunty separated those functions from warranted belief in supernatural agency.
Jordan Peterson: 73 · Matt Dillahunty: 89. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jordan Peterson vs Susan Blackmore: Do We Need God to Make Sense of Life? · 2018
Peterson grounds meaning in enacted religious inheritance, while Blackmore offers evolutionary, contemplative, and social counterexamples to claims of religious necessity.
Jordan Peterson: 74 · Susan Blackmore: 85. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Sam Harris vs Jordan Peterson: God, Atheism, The Bible, Jesus · 2018
Peterson defends religious narrative as moral mediation and embodied guidance; Harris argues that well-being, causal inquiry, and revisability provide clearer secular foundations.
Jordan Peterson: 78 · Sam Harris: 84. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Memes, Archetypes, and Religious Truth: Jordan Peterson vs. Richard Dawkins · 2024
Scientific naturalism wins 86–74 by separating symbolic usefulness from factual warrant, demanding traceable evidence, and explaining cultural transmission naturally, while symbolic realism remains strongest on narrative prioritization and action-guiding compression.
Jordan Peterson: 74 · Richard Dawkins: 86. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Capitalism, Marxism, and Human Happiness: Jordan Peterson vs. Slavoj Žižek · 2019
Žižek prevailed 78–75 by separating capitalist prosperity from happiness and democratic freedom, while Peterson strongly defended poverty reduction, material security, responsibility, and meaning.
Jordan Peterson: 75 · Slavoj Žižek: 78. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.
Jordan Peterson vs Sam Harris: Can Religious Narratives Ground Morality and Meaning? · 2018
Harris wins narrowly by separating religious narratives’ genuine usefulness from truth and necessity, while Peterson exposes unresolved problems in secular value selection.
Jordan Peterson: 75 · Sam Harris: 81. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.